Not all seek to control. Just as not all wish to be free.
My beliefs do not require them to.[Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you believe.]
I am the King of Dreams. Ruler of the Nightmare Realms.
There’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.
You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.[to Neo]
What is real? How do you define real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.[to Neo]
What happened, happened, and couldn’t have happened any other way.
They taught you good. Made you believe their world was all you deserved. But some part of you knew that was a lie. Some part of you remembered what was real.[to Neo]
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.[to Neo]
Nothing comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia.
I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream has gone from me.
We of the Endless are the servants of the living, not their masters. We exist only because they know deep in their hearts that we exist.[to Desire]